Carolyn Fortuna/ Brooke Gilmore

"Unpacking Media Messages to Promote Social Action"


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Hello! Please click the following link to see our PBI document, "Upstanders, Arise!"




Instructional Plan Supporting Documents

Teacher Modeling: Upstanders, Rise!: Storify Teacher Modeling Tool

Student Sample Project: Storify: Deconstructing Relationships in Advertising


Online reading instructions:


Here's how it all started: Our Pre-Production Plan
  • Who are the members of your authorship team?: Dr. Carolyn Fortuna, Franklin High School English Teacher & Brooke Gilmore, Information Literacy Librarian at SNHU
  • What is your purpose? (e.g., informative, entertaining, persuasive): Informative, empowering
  • Who is your specific target audience? (e.g., teenagers, adults, certain occupation): High School Seniors and College Freshmen
  • What genre or form of message do you wish to share with others? (e.g. blog, tweet, novel, webpage): Storify project
  • What is the key content of your message?: Youth can make a difference in their worlds when they have the tools to deconstruct media messages.
  • What values will be communicated through image, language, and sound?: Demystification of media messages, empowered media consumers and producers, ability to make a difference in one’s community
  • What creative techniques will you use to attract and hold audience attention?: Critical pedagogy, current events analysis, interactive audience polling and discussion